{"id":290044,"date":"2025-11-17T08:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T08:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/290044\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T08:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T08:57:08","slug":"mohammad-rizwan-achieves-major-career-landmark-in-third-sri-lanka-odi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/290044\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohammad Rizwan achieves major career landmark in third Sri Lanka ODI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RAWALPINDI: Pakistan wicketkeeper-batter Mohammad Rizwan reached a significant milestone on Sunday, playing his 100th One-Day International (ODI) during the third match of the series against Sri Lanka at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The right-handed batter made the occasion memorable by scoring an unbeaten 61 from 92 balls, his 19th ODI half-century, guiding Pakistan to victory.<\/p>\n<p>Rizwan, who made his ODI debut in 2015 against Bangladesh in Mirpur, became the 33rd Pakistani cricketer to reach the 100-match mark.<\/p>\n<p>He joined a distinguished group that includes legends like Imran Khan, Javed Miandad, Inzamam-ul-Haq and Wasim Akram, as well as modern-day greats Shahid Afridi, Babar Azam, Mohammad Hafeez and Shoaib Malik.<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on our Official\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029Va9kjxo6mYPLvlX1UJ43\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WhatsApp channel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among them, Shahid Afridi holds the record for the most ODI appearances for Pakistan with 393 matches, followed by Inzamam-ul-Haq with 375 and Wasim Akram with 356.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s head coach for white-ball cricket, Mike Hesson, congratulated Rizwan in a video released by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll right, boys, it\u2019s a special occasion when anyone plays their first game for Pakistan, but today we\u2019ve got a player who\u2019s playing his 100th,\u201d Hesson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s brought a heck of a lot of energy, desire, and skill to Pakistan, and I\u2019m sure there\u2019s plenty more ahead. But, Riz, congratulations, mate, 100 games today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Rizwan is the fourth-highest run-scorer in ODIs among Pakistan wicketkeepers, accumulating 2,921 runs to date.<\/p>\n<p>Moin Khan leads the list with 3,266 runs, while the Akmal brothers, Kamran and Umar, hold the second and third spots.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of dismissals, Rizwan has 106 in 79 innings, ranking fifth behind Moin Khan (287), Rashid Latif (220), Kamran Akmal (187), and Sarfaraz Ahmed (143).<\/p>\n<p>READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/a-sports.tv\/asia-cup-rising-stars-final-to-be-marred-by-trophy-controversy\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Asia Cup Rising Stars final likely to be marred by trophy controversy: sources<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RAWALPINDI: Pakistan wicketkeeper-batter Mohammad Rizwan reached a significant milestone on Sunday, playing his 100th One-Day International (ODI) during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,51273,167021,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-290044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-mohammad-rizwan","12":"tag-mohammad-rizwan-sri-lanka","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}